Well said 👏🏻

😮thats impressive considering she hasn't been in the company for that long

no shade because i think maya is the mba dancer showcased with the most talent by miles, but she’s not “second principal”she’s a second soloist. a soloist and a principal dancer are completely different positions

she's a second soloist! i'm sure she'll get to principal eventually tho❤

Maya is second soloist at ROYAL Swedish Ballet not principal❤ with love from a former RSB school student. National Swedish ballet is another company in Gothenburg (swedens second biggest city). RSB is in the capital Stockholm. And that was a little geography lesson for all of you lovely Maya fans 💗💗💗

She's at Royal Swedish

YAY!❤

And mel

is there a full video of their duo dance? this short is too short I wanted to see more of that ,🙂

Still alive and being used, not sure abt when the will disintegrate tho. Maybe in a couple years she will just not use any sort of padding for her toes 😅❤

Personally, I've only seen the girls at MBA do this (to such an extent). It's an idiosyncrasy that I think should be trained out. It's always bothered me when male dancers do it, too.

@@ivyarianrhod ok so It isn't my imagination ....

hi, not a ballet dancer, so i dont understand what u mean by double preparation.. could u describe it, so i can see in the video what ure talking abt?? im curious to see so i can compare turns with/without

@@melowlw8638 before taking off for the turn, instead of taking One, solid, solutary pliè (knee bend) and taking off from that One movement, there are a series of Little hesitation bends of the knees. In clean technique you bend your knees once and your arms don't move from their original preparation position in and attempt to engineer extra momentum. If you Watch closer there Is this sort of "Wind up", like and extra pump of both the arms and legs to get force.

A lot of dancers don't cover their heels with the tights because the pointe shoes grip better to skin than they grip to tights. It's also common to put rosin on the heels so that the shoes grip even better and don't move around and cause friction and cause blisters. After a while, the skin also gets used to being exposed to the shoe and can start thickening in that area, so that also helps prevent blisters after a while.

They went and bought like $200 in toe pads and, unsurprisingly, she didn't want them.

@@C-SDsome professional ballerinas don’t want new toe pads because they’re ’too thick’ at first and the ones they have might be ‘perfectly broken in’. It just depends on a dancers preference

That is done with very tiny steps

Rosin

She's Maya Schonbrun. Currently one of the 2nd soloists in the Swedish National Ballet

@@ChageeyaSarang She's at Royal Swedish Ballet. There's a difference.

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